Vacancies

Area Support Chef

We are seeking a passionate and qualified head chef to join the senior management team working as an area support chef across London.

This will be a hands on role providing support to a number of teams and homes across the London and surrounding areas. The successful chef will need to be happy with overnight stays and flexibility to travel across the London area and support where necessary. All travel expenses are paid for along with a competitive basic salary.

Residents come first at Care UK. We ensure our residents diets are varied. We like to offer exciting and vibrant menus to suit nutritional and palliative needs. But most importantly we get to know our residents, all our menus are bespoke and tailored to the residents, therefore menus across our homes are all different; after all we all have different tastes.

The ideal chef Care UK are seeking would be someone who is compassionate and personable. We would envisage our chef to want to connect with residents, enabling relationships to be built, as well as learning personal tastes and palliative needs. A chef who is passionate about creating home cooked food using fresh seasonal ingredients and is able to deliver this both in main and puree form. Essentially having good knowledge of dysphagia foods. All our residents dine with dignity and enjoy what they are eating. It’s essential the successful chef understands that it’s not just about presentation but also about texture, colour, smell all of these are just as important as one another.

Full knowledge of nutritional, palliative cooking-including good knowledge of dysphagia

Strong managerial and leadership skills

Experience working with fresh seasonal produce

Good menu implementation

Have the ability to raise standards through innovation methods

Experience within the healthcare sector would be advantageous

Care UK is committed to ensuring that it employs people with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and will assess every applicant fairly regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability or offending background. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us, it will depend on the nature of the role and background of any offence.